What’s the difference between sitting with your hands up and lying face down when surrendering to the police? Apparently, there’s a big enough difference that in order to find out if his rights were legally violated, Alexander Baxter has to go all the way to the Supreme Court. The Cato Institute’s Jay Schweikert discusses Baxter’s case and just how bad qualified immunity can be.

Cato has been leading calls for police accountability and criminal justice reform for decades. For the last several years, Cato’s Project on Criminal Justice chose to make the elimination of qualified immunity one of its top priorities for the simple reason that civil society is impossible without a well‐functioning criminal justice system.

Hong Kong’s best hope is the threat of economic retaliation by a broad coalition led by America focused on vital redlines protecting essential liberties, not democracy or independence.

The disparity between what is seen and what is not seen means that government officials have incentives to be overly cautious and impose more restrictions for longer lengths of time than what may really be necessary.